On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 10:51:40AM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > >Yes, it does. Despite what others have said, there is a beneficial > >patent > >exhaustion effect. If software with patented algorithms is > >distributed by the > >patent owner, for example by Microsoft via GitHub, the patent is > >exhausted. > >https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/patent_exhaustion/ > > Yeah, ok, no idea. Such a stupid thing as software patents does not exist where I live. You would think so, and the European Patent Convention (EPC) sounds pretty nice, but the fact that the European Patent Office is betting heavily on pretty scantily clothed software patents [1] is somewhat unsettling, to say the least. Yes, I'm happy that we've come so far (and I've been standing in front of the EU parliament chanting with a bunch of other crazies a couple of years ago), but we haven't "won" yet. Cheers [1] Just say "on a computer" :-) -- t
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